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- The everyday world
- The park is still there, but not the train station
- No longer a Small Town
- Beds $2
- Poor kid
- Still going!
- I laughed
- Those hats
- Just seventeen days into the worry and uncertainty
- Camp Crowder
- Old Greyhound Bus Terminal
- Smoking!
- Powder monkey
- Lousy
- Beetle Bailey
- Warning Labels
- Something askew
- Long term move
- I'm pretty sure
- 1940 letters
- Postcards from the edge
- Entrepreneurs at the start
- Blowin' in the Wind
- Another Victim of Fire
- Jerusalem
- Unchanged
- Ashes by Now
- Stunningly beautiful
- Mr. Rothstein's auto
- All in the training
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On the Edge: 1905
New York circa 1905. "Flatiron Building, Broadway and Fifth Avenue." Another view of everyone's favorite proto-skyscraper, at anchor in Manhattan. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
C.G. Gunther
The flag at the top right reads: C.G. Gunther. He was a furrier and at one time mayor of New York City.
The OTHER guy on a ledge
What about the leg coming out the window two floors up from the sign guy? What in the world is HE about to do?
[Good question. Maybe like all those window-ledge milk bottles we've seen, he's chillin'. - Dave]
The guy on the ledge
It's Harold Lloyd's dad.
On the edge is right!
Did you notice the man standing on the 2nd floor ledge, right toward the front of the building? I can't figure out what he's doing - any speculation?
[Something to do with that sign. - Dave]
No Overhead Wires
This is a great shot but I'm wondering whats powering all the streetcars in view. Was it an electrified center rail? Couldn't be a cable the way all the tracks are crossing. When did the overhead "trolley" era begin?
[Manhattan streetcars used an underground electrical power supply, accessed through a slot between the rails. - Dave]
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